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NOW OPEN 📢 TRACEY EMIN: A SECOND LIFE Step into the tender world of Tracey Emin in her landmark exhibition at Tate Modern. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, trace over 40 years of Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. 🎟️ Book today, Members go free 🗓️ Until 31 August 2026 📍 Tate Modern In partnership with @gucci

Love making, recovery, and intimacy, all combine in a vessel, open and tender. A rare chance to see all of the elements that make up Tracey Emin’s iconic 1998 work, ‘My Bed’, with @wellerharry (Creative Director @traceyeminstudio ). Experience the artwork in our upcoming Tate Modern exhibition, opening next week. TRACEY EMIN: A SECOND LIFE 🗓️ Opens Friday 27 February 📍 Tate Modern 🎟️ Members go free

❤️ More love ❤️ Tracey Emin’s iconic neon works have taken over London! From Lambeth and Croydon to Walthamstow and Tower Hamlets, encounter Emin’s poignant and poetic declarations in 22 locations across 11 boroughs until 9 March, thanks to a collaboration with Jack Arts. Tag us when you find one for a chance to be featured! 🎟️ Tracey Emin: A Second Life opens at Tate Modern on 27 Feb. Book your tickets today, Members go free

To mark Jewish Culture Month, we’re hosting #CollectionConversations. Led by staff and Tate volunteers, we’re inviting visitors to explore works by Jewish artists across the collection. Taking place across Tate Britain and Tate Modern, join us for an open exchange of ideas, hear different perspectives and contribute your own responses to the artworks on display. Guided by a host, each session starts with a brief prompt and evolves as ideas and perspectives are shared. These conversations invite visitors to pause, look closely and engage more deeply with the collection, creating a space to enjoy art in a social, welcoming setting. 🗓️ Dates for the diary 🏛️ 31 May: At Tate Britain, every hour from 1pm 🏭 14 June: At Tate Modern, every hour from 1pm Throughout @JewishCultureMonth will also be regular Ten-minute Talks on Jewish artists in the collection, both at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Find out more on via the link in our bio 🔗 ------------------------------------ ❤️ Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Photograph of Milein Cosman’s mother and an unidentified woman, 1984. From the Tate Archive 🐱 Lucian Freud, Girl with a Kitten, 1947 © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images 2023. Bequeathed by Simon Sainsbury 2006, accessioned 2008. On free display at Tate Britain 🎨 R.B. Kitaj, Isaac Babel Riding with Budyonny, 1962 © The estate of R. B. Kitaj. Purchased 1963. On free display at Tate Modern 🎠 Mark Gertler, Merry-Go-Round, 1916. Tate Collection. Purchased 1984. On free display at Tate Britain 🔶 David Bomberg , In the Hold, c.1913–14 © Tate. Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1967. On free display at Tate Britain 🖌️ Lee Krasner, Gothic Landscape, 1961 © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2026. Purchased 1981. On free display at Tate Modern 🏘️ Hedda Sterne, NY, NY No. X, 1948 © Estate of Hedda Sterne / DACS 2026, All rights reserved. Presented by Clara Diament Sujo 2012. On free display at Tate Modern 👒 John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: A Vele Gonfie, 1904. Tate Collection. Bequeathed by Robert Mathias 1996. On free display at Tate Britain

‘Tate Modern is massive!’ – an 8-year-old visitor We’ve heard that one before… and, truthfully, from a few older visitors too! Ever found yourself a little lost in the galleries? Our family tours are here to help. Meet Alexa, one of our brilliant tour guides, who helps families explore Tate Modern through artworks, stories and the building itself. On this tour, Alexa and three young visitors discover the vibrant work of artist Pacita Abad while finding their way around Tate Modern together 🎨 Family tours take place across Tate Britain and Tate Modern, and are a great way to explore the galleries at your own pace. And for those making a day of it, there are plenty of family spaces to drop into: ✨ Story Space at Tate Britain ✨ Play Studio reopening for half-term from 23 May ✨ UNIQLO Tate Play: Make Studio at Tate Modern Plan your visit via the link in bio. #InternationalDayOfFamilies Pacita Abad Bacongo VI 1986 Pacita Abad Bacongo III 1986 Pacita Abad, European Mask 1990 Tate. © Courtesy of the Pacita Abad Art Estate. © Pacita Abad Art Estate

‘Taking on the Tate Britain Commission feels both monumental and intimate. It’s about bringing the weight of history into dialogue with the living pulse of the Pan-African experience. It gives me the opportunity to imagine new stories, new energies and new meanings.’ – Zineb Sedira 🎬 Sedira’s ‘When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks…’ is now open at Tate Britain. Entry is free, on until 27 January 2027. 🗓️ 18 June, 6.30pm - 8pm: Join Zineb Sedira as she discusses her major new Tate Britain commission, her largest UK project to date. Book your place today.

Listen out for a familiar voice on the tube this week 🔊 To mark @transportforlondon ’s #PrioritySeatingWeek, we’re excited to share that Dame Tracey Emin has lent her voice to station announcements to raise awareness of non-visible disabilities. ‘Through my own experiences of cancer, which led me to having a stoma, I know just how much of an impact a health condition or disability can have on something like standing on a train. Any one of us can have a health condition or disability, and because many of these don’t have outward cues, that might mean people miss out on things that would really help them, like getting a seat on public transport. If you’re out and about in London, please do offer your seat if you don’t need it yourself – you never know what a difference you could make.’ – Tracey Emin

‘Beauty without the beloved is like a sword through the heart.’ - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, born on this day 1828 ❤️ 🎨 In this painting, Rossetti captures the moment after the goddess Proserpine bites into a pomegranate. Imprisoned in the underworld, she is lit by a beam of sunlight from the world above. According to Roman legend, Hades, the God of the Underworld, stole and imprisoned Proserpine. Because she ate six pomegranate seeds while captive, he curses her to remain in the underworld for six months of every year. The model was Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s friend Jane Morris, whom he painted repeatedly in his later years. He was working on an eighth version of Proserpine in the month of his death. You can find Rossetti's Proserpine in our free Tate Britain display, Historic and Modern British Art: Beauty as Protest: 1845–1905. 🍃 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Proserpine (detail),1874 Tate Collection. Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1940

Today is Tate Modern’s 26th birthday! 🎈🎁🎂 The gallery was opened #OnThisDay in 2000 by Her Majesty The Queen, on the site of Bankside’s converted power station. What’s your fondest memory of Tate Modern? Here’s some of our favourites ⬇️ ⚪️ Hyundai Commission: SUPERFLEX, One Two Three Swing! 2017 🌞 Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project 2003 🕷️ Louise Bourgeois, Maman 2025
🪼 Hyundai Commission: Anicka Yi, In Love With The World 2021
🌻 Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds 2010 📯 The Unilever Series: Anish Kapoor: Marsyas 2002 🔴 UNIQLO TATE PLAY Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room 2022 🏛️ Hyundai Commission: Kara Walker, Fons Americanus 2019
⛵Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui, Behind The Red Moon 2023
☁️ Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña, Brain Forest Quipu 2022
⚙️ Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee, Open Wound 2024
⚡ The Unilever Series: Doris Salcedo Shibboleth 2007 🛢 The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller: Test site 2006
📷 Archive photo of the Turbine Hall before work on Tate Modern began We wanted to take this moment to say a huge thank you to all of our followers. We look forward to more birthdays, more experiences and more unforgettable memories together, and we can’t wait to see you next! Until then, keep creating, keep dreaming and keep believing in the power of art to make change.

A long Sunday soak 🐚 💭 Resting within a large shell on the sea floor, surrounded by life underwater, Venus lays in solitary thought. In Renaissance paintings, Venus is usually depicted rising naked and triumphant from a large seashell floating on the surface of the sea, but here in Thomas Lowinsky’s striking painting, the goddess of love is in a much more contemplative mood. 🎨 Thomas Lowinsky, The Dawn of Venus, 1922. Tate Collection. Purchased 1940

‘All my work is about trying to redeem images... to break through the seal of indifference that comes with familiarity. I am making that strangeness visible’ – John Stezaker For #WorldCollageDay today, we invite you to put the kettle on, make a nice cup of tea and get comfy as we join John Stezaker in his studio for a #TateLongPlay. By cutting and combining stills of Hollywood pin-ups, scenic postcards and other photographs drawn from his extensive archive, he destroys images to set them free. You can also discover 2 of Stezaker’s artworks in our free Tate Britain display, Modern and Contemporary British Art.

There’s only a few days left to see Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern ⏳ Recently we joined Nigerian artist Chief Jimoh Buraimoh to talk about what the show means to him. Set against the backdrop of cultural and artistic rebellion, Nigerian Modernism celebrates the achievements of Nigerian artists working before and after the decade of national independence from British colonial rule in 1960. Closing this Sunday, don’t miss your chance to explore the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria in the mid-20th century. Book your tickets today, Members go free. In partnership with @accessholdingsplc